Cyrus (ship) explained

Several ships have been named Cyrus for Cyrus:

• , was launched at Salem in 1792 or 1800 (records differ); The British captured her in 1803 and she became a whaler that made 17 whaling voyages between 1804 and 1853. She made one more mercantile voyage in 1854 and then disappears from Lloyd's Register.
  • This Cyrus should not be confused with the American whaler, Cyrus, of Nantucket, which sailed during the same era.^[1] A bill of sale in the Nantucket Historical Association Research Library shows that a whaling vessel named Cyrus had several owners and was registered in London in 1916.^[2] Several sources speak of a Cyrus and an incident at Pitcairn, but some call it a London whaler and others an American whaler. However, testimony from the crew confirms this ship was sailing elsewhere under a different Captain.^[3]
• was launched at Whitby. She spent her early career as a transport. Then after the war she made one or more voyages to Bengal and Ceylon under a license from the British East India Company. After her return she traded between Great Britain and North America. She was wrecked at Quebec in November 1844.
• On 23 December 1858 the brig Cyrus took shelter from a storm off Cape Flattery, Vancouver Island. She anchored in Port San Juan, but her anchor chain broke and she was driven ashore near the mouth of the Gordon river.^[4]
• was launched Kingston upon Hull in 1815. She sailed on annual voyages to Greenland as a whaler. She was lost in July 1823.
• A Cyrus was wrecked at Hartlepool, England. 9 February 1861.^[5]

Notes and References

1. News: HAS A PITCAIRN BIBLE. – One of These Noted Books Is Owned by a Hartford Society . . January 17, 1897 . . 6 June 2013.
2. Web site: Manuscript Collections held at the Research Library . Nantucket Historical Association . 2011 . 6 June 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131206043556/http://www.nha.org/library/ms/ms15.htm . 6 December 2013 . dead .
3. Web site: Correspondence Between the Consuls of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, &c, with the Secretary of State, on the Subject of the African Slave Trade . scholarship.rice.edu . 2013 . 6 June 2013.
4. Web site: Graveyard of the Pacific – The Shipwrecks of Vancouver Island . https://web.archive.org/web/20040710180500/http://www.pacificshipwrecks.ca/english/wrecks.html . dead . July 10, 2004 . pacificshipwrecks.ca . 2011 . 6 June 2013 .
5. Web site: The Great Gale of 1861 . February 3, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060622082401/http://portcities.hartlepool.gov.uk/server.php?show=ConNarrative.18 . June 22, 2006 .